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Recent content by Celestine

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    ANXIETY AND RELATIONSHIP

    I meditate, and have been doing so for decades. It goes a long way to helping me, not just with my anxiety. It's not a cure, but it has helped me with way more than just my anxiety. Now to relationships... I've never managed to have a relationship with anyone before, until now. It's a guy I met...
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    areas of #special interest as a prn?

    This is interesting, because recently I've been doing something similar. I'm not very good, but I play the piano. And I didn't know what the correct term was, but now I do--I play arpeggios with the left hand and one of a few songs I know or have written and I feel like an enormous emotional...
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    Autism forum-take 2

    I've realized that the reason I can't just "move on," and why new "emotional injuries" keep getting done, and compounded on all the decades of previous ones, is because those people are still in my life to some extent and I haven't figured out how to get them out.
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    Autism forum-take 2

    I only realized in 2018, the first time I found an autism forum--I think it was this one in fact--that I probably had autism. I remember reading forum posts through streams of tears, because I finally understood people, and they were having the same troubles with other people that I'd been...
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    Autism forum-take 2

    Thanks ❤️. It's also an alternative name for the crystal celestite :), which is why I chose it. I'm considering changing my real name to Celestine. I'm not sure yet. Or maybe just use it as a pseudonym whenever I finally write my books (if I ever write them).
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    Autism forum-take 2

    Last week my friend said something in an sms--I answered him seriously, and then the next morning it dawned on me that he might have been joking, based on previous subjects he's "joked" about. The next time we met, feeling pretty proud of myself for realizing it was probably a joke, I asked him...
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    Autism forum-take 2

    Thanks.
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    Late diagnosed and turning 50

    I'm over 50. I'm also new here. I got diagnosed at the end of 2023. I haven't given age a thought since I was about 40, because I've just wanted to die the whole time, and when you're like that, some estranged person, likely even the ones who hurt you most in life, coming in and wishing you a...
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    Autism forum-take 2

    Hi. I apparently came on here last year. I don't remember--it's all a blur. I had just been diagnosed with atypical autism, previously known as Asperger's Syndrome. I was evaluated in the fall of 2023. I'm over 50. Due to the fact that all three of my family members were mentally and emotionally...
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    People's reactions when you want to stand up for yourself

    I just had to make the point that this statement is illogical. If there is no such thing as "socializing well," there wouldn't be all of the unspoken social rules that we, even ones like me who can read other people's facial expressions like a book and feel their emotions like they were my own...
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    Relationship with Neighbors

    I live in Sweden, so I never ever have to worry about being invited anywhere by neighbors or anyone else lol. And if I did (because it has happened since I moved up north) I would just find a nice way to say no if I didn't want to go. I love my neighbors. As long as I am the one who decides if...
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    People's reactions when you want to stand up for yourself

    Yes!! I'll go one better--I get gas-lighted when I try to stand up for myself. I've had a few boyfriends and every single one has lied to me and exploited me, usually for money and when I tried to talk to them about it, they turned the tables on me and I found myself being accused of not...
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    Are a portion of people on the autism spectrum asexual? Asking due to my failed relationship

    I always dreaded having to have sex. I wanted one thing in my life---a husband and a family. I have zero sex drive. However, I have always had a strong drive to please any husband I would get. Fast-forward a decade... I'm not entirely "asexual." By myself, I am. I am what is called...
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    removed

    @Yeshuasdaughter Dear Yeshuasdaughter, I know this. I know your suffering. Your relative sounds very much like both my brother and my father. I have some ideas to impart to you for contemplation. First of all, I grew up with two family members, the men, who were just like your relative, my...
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